Glo-sponsored African Voices Playmakers Hosts Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka

This weekend’s edition of Globacom-sponsored African Voices Playmakers on CNN International will host Nigeria’s literary colossus and global icon, Professor Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka.

The 30-minute magazine programme will engage the Nobel Laureate on the ideologies and the passion that formed the foundation of his enviable life and career.

Soyinka will share insights into his life, career, and the values that have shaped his work.  He will also discuss his extraordinary activism, which has inspired an upcoming movie about his political incarceration in Nigeria. The movie is scheduled to be released this year.

Born on July 13, 1934, Soyinka was born on July 13, 2024. In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in for his wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence.

His impressive educational background includes studying at the University College, Ibadan (now the University of Ibadan) and the University of Leeds in the UK.

Soyinka’s accolades extend beyond the Nobel Prize. He’s also received the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature (1990), the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award (2009), the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement (2012), and the Europe Theatre Prize, Special Prize (2017).

Viewers can watch African Voices at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday on DSTV Channel 401. Repeats will be broadcast the same Saturday at noon; Sunday at 4.30 a.m. and 7.00 p.m.; and on Monday at 4.00 a.m. The same edition will be repeated on Saturday next week at 8.30 a.m. and 12 noon and on Sunday at 4.30 a.m. and 7.00 p.m.